Populärastronomi & populär rymdforskning

ONE OF THE TIMES BEST SCIENCE BOOKS OF THE YEAR & A HUGO AWARD FINALIST THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER THE #2 MOST GIFTED BOOK IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM From the bestselling authors of Soonish, a brilliant and hilarious off-world investigation into sp...

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A Brief History of Time for the 21st Century At the heart of our galaxy lies a monster so deadly, not even light can escape its grasp. Its secrets lie waiting to be discovered. Its time to explore our universes most mysterious inhabitants Black Ho...

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Ulf Danielsson, professor i teoretisk fysik, har länge forskat på rymdens riktigt stora frågor, om tidens början, om svarta hål och mörk materia. I "Vårt klot, så ömkligt litet" återvänder han till jorden och sätter in den i ett kosmiskt...

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Innehåller anpassningsbar stjärnkarta! Denna heltäckande guide till stjärnhimlen ger dig all information du behöver för att kunna ägna dig åt stjärnskådning. Boken redogör och beskriver tydligt, i text och i bild, vilka stjärnor och konstellatione...

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Astronomisk kalender 2024 vänder sig till alla som skulle vilja veta mer om stjärnhimlen och vad som händer där, vecka för vecka under hela året. Samtidigt är den en fullständig almanacka med veckonummer, namnsdagar och helgdagar. Om du bara vet n...

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Sedan tidernas begynnelse har människan förundrats av frågan om hur allting började. Men vetenskapen erbjuder en mycket mer fantasifull och kraftfull berättelse om världens skapelse än någon mytologi. Det är utgångspunkten när Guido Tonelli, prisb...

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Följ med Sveriges enda rymddesigner och "space broker" Cecilia Hertz på en rafflande resa av upptäckter, innovation och forskning som ytterst kan rädda vår planet! Från astronaut till urbanaut Astronauter konsumerar bara den exakta mängd...

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NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST, OBSERVER, NEW SCIENTIST, BBC FOCUS, INDEPENDENT AND WASHINGTON POST 'A rollicking tour of the wildest physics. . . Like an animated discussion with your favourite quirky and brilliant professor&...

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Every night, above our heads, a drama of epic proportions is playing out. Diamond planets, zombie stars, black holes heavier than a billion Suns. The cast of characters is extraordinary, and each one has its own incredible story to tell. We once t...

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From the New York Times -bestselling author of  The Secret World of Weather and The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs, learn to tap into nature and notice the hidden clues all around you Before GPS, before the compass, and even before ...

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As a new wave of interplanetary exploration unfolds, a talented young planetary scientist charts our centuries-old obsession with Mars. 'Beautifully written, emotive - a love letter to a planet' DERMOT O'LEARY, BBC Radio 2 Mars - be...

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A wonderful novel and perfect book club choice, The Right Stuff is a wildly vivid and entertaining chronicle of America's early space programme. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY US ASTRONAUT SCOTT KELLY What is it, asks Tom Wolfe, that makes a man wil...

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Examines humankind's changing awareness of its place in the universe and the rich potential of human ventures into the world beyond Earth.

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* Look up and take a journey through the stars * From the twelve constellations in the zodiac family or asterisms such as the Big Dipper and the Great Square of Pegasus, to the lesser-known formations of the Chameleon or the Sculptor, the night sk...

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Maria Küchens Rymdens alfabet är en passionerad berättelse om människans rymdfärder och allt som hör därtill: Sovjetunionens 150 rymdhundar, rymddräkters haute couture och poplåtar om månraketer. SvD I Rymdens alfabet ger sig Maria Küchen i kast m...

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THE PERFECT ASTROLOGY GIFT FOR THE ZODIAC LOVER IN YOUR LIFE! Nobody's future is written in the stars, but we can use the stars to help write our future. For thousands of years people have looked to the night sky for the answers to life'...

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An astonishing tour of the key astronomical events of the past century, and of all the accidents and human error involved in our pursuit of asteroids, radio waves, new stars and alien life. 'A riveting real-life Hitchhiker's Guide to the...

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A brilliant introductory guide to exploring the night sky, from the astronomers of the Royal Observatory Greenwich. Offering complete advice from the ground up, Stargazing is the perfect manual for beginners to astronomy introducing the world of t...

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From the world-renowned physicist and bestselling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos, a captivating exploration of deep time and humanity's search for purpose In both time and space, the cosmos is astoundingly vast, a...

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The ideal gift for all amateur and seasoned astronomers. This is a great guide to the night sky at a great price Astronomy Now A handy and straightforward guide. British Astronomical Association's 'Journal' an ideal Christmas stocki...

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New to Penguin Classics, the astonishing story of the Copernican Revolution, told through the words of the ground-breaking scientists who brought it about In the late fifteenth century, it was believed that the earth stood motionless at the centre...

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En dag för ungefär tjugo år sedan upptäckte forskarna helt oväntat att någonting sträckte ut rymden och fick den att expandera i allt snabbare takt. Detta något kom att kallas mörk energi. Ingen vet vad det är mörk energi är ytterligare en okänd b...

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Se ljusåret ur astrofotografens perspektiv. Stanna till vid våra fyra årstider och upptäck vad som gör var och en av dem alldeles speciell. Följ med på en resa till solen, månen, Vintergatan, de nattlysande molnen och de mäktigaste av norrsken. Va...

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The fantastic first book in the Sunday Times bestselling Science of Discworld series When a wizardly experiment goes adrift, the wizards of Unseen University find themselves with a pocket universe on their hands: Roundworld, where neither magic no...

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'IMPRESSIVE AND ILLUMINATING' TOM HANKS This is the definitive account of the heroic Apollo programme. When astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took their 'giant leap for mankind' across a ghostly lunar landscape, they we...

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Interstellar, from acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan, takes us on a fantastic voyage far beyond our solar system. Yet in The Science of Interstellar, Kip Thorne, the Nobel prize-winning physicist who assisted Nolan on the scientific aspects of...

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A revised and updated edition of the classic work to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the first moon landing 'It left me spellbound ... belongs to the same tradition as Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff' Sunday Times 'Fascinat...

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As NightWatch, Terence Dickinsons classic stargazing guide, neared its 40th anniversary, Dickinson worked with a small group of trusted colleagues to give this groundbreaking reference an overhaul that will take it deep into the 21st century. Long...

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1967-1973 (Apollo 4 to Apollo 17 & Skylab), Few launch vehicles are as iconic and distinctive as NASA's behemoth rocket, the Saturn V, and none left such a lasting impression on those who watched it ascend. Developed with the specific brief to...

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Professor Stephen Hawking is generally considered to have been one of the world's greatest thinkers. Here, his phenomenal bestseller A Brief History of Time is illustrated to bring his theories to life in a clear, captivating and visually eng...

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